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Clay Lucas is city editor for The Age. Clay has worked at The Age since 2005, covering state politics, urban affairs, transport, local government and workplace relations for The Age and Sunday Age. Clay won a Quill with Age investigative reporter Royce Millar in 2009.

Clay Lucas
Qantas has announced it will ''review'' the work done by 300 remaining engineers, maintenance staff and contractors at Avalon Airport in Victoria, a move that will likely lead to most of them being...

Clay Lucas
''Breadwinner man'', once the norm in Australian society, is long gone, replaced by a nation of families on joint incomes - making concerns around job security less critical than they once were.

Ben Schneiders, Clay Lucas
Employers may look to bring in more overseas workers after a landmark Fair Work Commission ruling that will see apprentices receive massive pay rises of as much as $100 a week.

Gareth Hutchens, Clay Lucas
Telstra flags it will cut up to 170 jobs and shift part of its back-office operations to India, amid warnings from unions the telco must not chase higher profits by simply getting cheaper labour...

Clay Lucas, Toby Hagon, David McCowen
Holden will ask employees at its Adelaide plant to accept a pay cut, in a bid to slash its labour costs - or risk the company's manufacturing arm leaving Australia.

Clay Lucas
A publisher of local newspapers in Melbourne that is half-owned by Fairfax Media will sack 34 of its staff, including journalists, and close down seven local papers in the city's south-east.